About Woodlands Hospice Charitable Trust
Woodlands Hospice is a day hospice serving the communities of Liverpool, Sefton and Knowsley and in all has a catchment of over 300,000 people. It provides medical care and support for people with life threatening illnesses and their families and carers. Woodlands currently provides care to between 520 and 550 patients each year.
The Woodlands strap line is ‘Adding life to days even when days cannot be added to lives’. At the heart of Woodlands is the individual, who is seen as a unique person deserving of dignity and respect. Our aim is to support each person and family unit helping them to make informed choices and decisions affecting their lives. Every aspect of a person is seen in relation to the whole, the total well-being of each individual being paramount.
Services offered include:
• Day therapy - medical consultation and symptom management, nursing review, group activities and access to all out-patient and complementary services
• Out-patient clinics, including a Lymphoedema clinic, stress management clinics, physiotherapy and occupational therapy
• Complementary therapies, like reflexology and aromatherapy
• Community Outreach service for those unable or not willing to travel to the Hospice
• Spiritual Support
• Social work service and bereavement counselling
• Pastoral care and support for carers and families
Every year Woodlands Hospice cares for more than 500 people who are living with life threatening and terminal illnesses.
Over and above its government funding, Woodlands Hospice needs to raise more than £1,000 every day from its fundraising, trading and lottery activities to continue to provide its wide range of services. This can only be achieved with the help of our local communities.
All care is provided free of charge and the challenge to secure funding for the hospice remains constant - with the majority of our income coming through public donation. As such, we rely upon the generosity of others in order to continue our vital work.
“My quality of life is so much improved and I feel 100% stronger and more able to cope. It is impossible to tell you how much Woodlands has meant to me – it has enabled me to cope with so many difficult issues and most of all has reduced some of the isolation and fears that having cancer has engendered” Woodlands Hospice Guest
In-Patient Unit
In 2006 we launched a Capital Appeal in order to raise the £2.37 million needed to add a 15-bedded in-patient unit to our existing services.
Currently, when the patients we are treating need bedded care, they have to be transferred back to the temporary specialist, palliative, care ward within the main Aintree Hospital.
Whilst the care the patients receive on the ward is very good, it is not the "home" environment we try so hard to create within the hospice setting. The transfer away from the hospice to a different location, at a time of greatest anxiety to patients and their families, is a situation we would like very much to avoid.
Just over £1.3 million of this target has already been secured but finding the remaining £1 million remains crucial.
Our history
Key Dates
6th November 1992 - registered with the Charity Commission
23rd November 1992 – the Appeal to create the Hospice launched by the Duke of Westminster
1994 – the appointment of a Consultant in Palliative Care
4th May 1995 – Foundation stone laid by the Duke of Westminster
20th June 1996 – Official opening of the Day Hospice by the Duchess of Kent
March 2005 – Out Patient Annexe opened by Roger Philips
October 2007 – Contractors commenced building on site for new In-patient Unit